Minecraft Ho!

I sort of feel like I'm a little late to the whole "minecraft" thing, and yet it was only officially released November of 2011 (And has sold over 5.3million copies!). I remember looking at it a few months back. I kept hearing noise about this Minecraft game, so I took a look. The website was just ok, and the game is all pixelated and blocky. I wasn't really impressed.

Well just a couple of weeks ago, I was browsing around Youtube, and came across a couple of videos for the game. I was fascinated, so I watched a couple more. I then headed over to the website (http://www.minecraft.net/), and they had put a new "promo" video on the site, and it looked cool. I've always really been into sandbox kind of games, and I LOVE building things in games. It's one of my most favorite things to do. So I downloaded the game, and started messing around with it. It was actually a lot of fun. I had to go look up a few tutorials to get a start on how the "crafting" part of it works, but there is a lot videos out there, and an entire wiki (of course).



After playing for a full day, I knew my kids would love it. So I set to work installing it on one of their computers, and figuring out how to setup a server on mine, and we started playing together. My littlest one (8 years old), loved it. I put her in "creative" mode, so she can build, and the monsters can't kill her. Yes, there monsters...they come out at night! Then my oldest one logged in also...and now she's hooked.

Needless to say, its a lot of fun, and for the most part, you're only limited by your imagination. There's a whole world out there supporting Minecraft as well. Curse has mods for it. People have made texture packs, that change the entire look of the game. And you can create all kinds of things...someone even managed to build a HUGE scientific calculator.  Me? I'm just designing a castle...and creative juices are flowing about what else I might want to build!  :)

Check out the video of my castle so far!